Guided Reading Planning Cards: Readers’ Theatre

Readers’ Theatre

Identify and explain key aspects of fiction and non-fictiontexts, such as characters, events, titles and information.

Content Domain – KS2

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2e

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2g

2h

Retrieve and record information / identify key details from fiction and non-fiction.

You will need a dialogue heavy text that children can actually highlight. The website http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk is good source of texts. For featured books, the first chapter can usually be downloaded as a PDF.

Allocate character roles to children and then ask them to read the text closely and highlight what their character says. You may also need to allocate the role of narrator for the bits in between the dialogue. The group then practise, perform and evaluate their piece. This activity allows the teacher to listen their group reading aloud to help them to assess the word reading aspects of the reading curriculum.

The performance session can be followed up by questioning using retrieval and inference question stems as well as appropriate test type questions.